Fluch und Rache: Dmitri Tcherniakovs neuer Holländer in Bayreuth

By Michael Vieth, 05 August 2021

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“Asmik Grigorian... atemberaubende Verschmelzung von Stimme und Persönlichkeit”

Reviewed at Bayreuther Festspielhaus, Bayreuth on 4 August 2021

Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)

Oksana Lyniv, Conductor

Dmitri Tcherniakov, Director, Set Designer

Elena Zaytseva, Costume Designer

Gleb Filshtinsky, Lighting Designer

Tatiana Werestchagina, Dramaturgy

John Lundgren, Dutchman

Asmik Grigorian, Senta

Georg Zeppenfeld, Daland

Eric Cutler, Erik

Marina Prudenskaya, Mary

Attilio Glaser, The Steersman

Bayreuth Festival Chorus

Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

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Eleanor Knight, 15th November

Director Dmitri Tcherniakov and a talented cast do everything to make Tchaikovsky’s opera work in Amsterdam, but problematic elements persist.

***11

Tcherniakov’s bold reading of Rusalka opens the season in Naples

Lorenzo Fiorito, 20th November

Dmitri Tcherniakov’s staging of Rusalka in Naples has a starkly modern visual style which occasionally dilutes the story’s emotional impact.

***11

Experiment Rheingold: Tcherniakov’s new Ring at the Staatsoper Berlin

Alexandra Richter, 2nd October

Thielemann and Tcherniakov forge a new Ring at the Berlin Staatsoper and raise great cheer.

****1

Tcherniakov's new Freischütz a brilliant piece of theater in Munich

Ako Imamura, 13th February

Dmitri Tcherniakov updates the "German Romantic Opera" into a modern-day thriller with interesting twists in a musically splendid performance in Munich.

*****

On the plague of eternal life: a new Makropulos Affair in Zurich

Sarah Batschelet, 22nd September

To outwit death and attain immortality is a dream as old as human history. But isn’t it precisely the finite nature of life that makes it so precious?

***11

Listen with Mother: Tsar Saltan as autism parable at La Monnaie

Mark Pullinger, 16th June

Dmitri Tcherniakov's staging turns Rimsky-Korsakov's opera into storytelling for an autistic boy, but does he deliver a fairy tale ending?

*****

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Michael Vieth

Michael Vieth ist Physiker und hat viele Jahre in der Zentralen Forschung der Siemens AG in Erlangen und München an magnetischen Speichern und Sensoren gearbeitet. Auch von klassischer Musik magnetisiert, singt er seit seinem Studium in Göttingen in großen Kantoreien und Chorprojekten; eine besondere Vorliebe hat sich zu Motetten der Renaissance und der Moderne entwickelt. Daneben faszinieren ihn Auftritte und Programme kleiner Vokal-Ensembles.